Howto: Create Roxio EMC 8 Silent Install

You must open/edit the "Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 Suite.msi" using a Windows Installer editor such as InstallShield or WISE Package Studio. In this reference I am using InstallShield 11.5 Premiere.

1st. Go to "Property Manager".

2nd. Locate the property "ROX_KEYTEXT", enter your serial number for the value in the format "XX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX". *(excluding the double-quotes)

3rd. Locate the property "AgreeToLicense", set the value to "Yes".

4th. *****SAVE***** the changes to the .MSI. *****Do Not recompile the .msi*****.

5th. Finally, you can now run the install silently using the command-line parameters "Setup.exe /qb".

*NOTE* Use Windows Installer command-line switches to the "Setup.exe" file.

*Additionally, you can also patch the .MSI with the latest update(8.0.5) using "msiexec.exe /p c:\Easy Media Creator 8.msp /a c:\Easy Media Creator 8.msi /qb" after downloading the executable and performing an administrative install to get the .msp file.